Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Whichever one best represents the distance that matters in your application. Depends on transportation technology both within and between the objects. 110
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Out today! An update to our award-winning Spot-The-Troll Quiz. New trolls, new real users, new tricks, new lessons! Check it out: spotthetroll.orgspotthetroll.orgInternet Troll and Disinformation QuizLearn the signs of online disinformation and internet trolls. The Spot the Troll quiz asks you to examine real social media profiles and posts and decide whether they are legitimate. 011
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 11/04/2025What are the most important differences between producing the machines used in manufacturing and producing the human capital required to install/maintain/operate those machines? We seem a lot more worried about balanced trade in physical capital than human capital. 000
Reposted by Patrick WarrenEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/04/202530 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me. 4554241128
Reposted by Patrick WarrenMorgan Wack @morganwack.bsky.social · 01/04/2025🚨 Excited to see our new paper out at @pnasnexus.org w/@pwarren.bsky.social, Darren Linvill, & Carl Ehrett! Using data from a Russia-backed influence operation running puppet website DCWeekly, we show how LLMs are being used to scale global disinfo campaigns: 1/ 🧵 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 262
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 27/03/2025A common assignment for undergraduate students in political communication is to write an OpEd and submit it for publication somewhere. 000
Reposted by Patrick WarrenPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics. 35568161684
Reposted by Patrick WarrenJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Welp, there goes the US defense industry. 25684843014846
Reposted by Patrick WarrenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed. 36588253075
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I kind of love the CDFs, though. Pick whatever summary stat you want! 010
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I'd love to hear your thoughts, because I found the reply pretty convincing. 110
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 18/03/2025It's here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comInitial Reply to Banki, Simonsohn, Walatka and Wu (2025)Banki et al. (2025) ("BSWW") show that by simultaneously (i) dropping subjects who made even one error in Oprea (2024)'s training questions (75% of th 110
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 15/03/2025These orders are the most directly authoritarian thing that the Trump admin thing has done. The logical end of this approach to EOs is to make it functionally impossible for Trump adversaries to get representation in U.S. federal court. 032
Reposted by Patrick Warrenevy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 06/03/2025no joke, social security workers can’t access @wired.com anymore @davidgilbert.bsky.social has more:wired.comSocial Security Workers Aren't Allowed to Read This StoryNew internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times. 531196365
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I have a memory of a shield bug on the version I played, where if your station had more than a certain level of shield it was impregnable. 000
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 27/02/2025If Peter Navarro has one good idea, it will be the first time. 020
Reposted by Patrick WarrenKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID 16035961193
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I had to stop listening. His take on "Elon is just replacing all these people with AI" is so disconnected with reality that I wondered why I should listen to anything else he had to say. 010
Reposted by Patrick WarrenLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 20/02/2025Using the case study of the MAGA mannequin video, Darren Linvill and @pwarren.bsky.social explore how Russian disinformation operations shape narratives and erode support for Ukraine's war effort, especially among American conservatives.lawfaremedia.orgUkraine: The Past, Present, and Future of Russian DisinformationRussian malign influence operations have changed their tactics in recent years. But their message has stayed the same: Abandon Ukraine. 35723
Reposted by Patrick WarrenChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/02/2025Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them. 14658981646
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Yes... when Congress doesn't stand up for itself, it's hard for outsiders to stand up for it. 000
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Maybe I'm bi***d, but I think it's a pr*v**** to be inc****d in it. 000
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 03/02/2025And has been... FOREVER. I used that dataset to write a paper in 2010. 010
Reposted by Patrick WarrenNoah Williams @bellmanequation.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Clemson University is looking to hire an Animal, salary not specified 3394
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I'm afraid we're going to have learn the hard way. 030
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I don't know what "correct price of the stock" means, but economists definitely don't generally assume that everyone involved in the market have the same (correct?) information . 000
Reposted by Patrick WarrenScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Live shot of Executive Branch 1439366
Reposted by Patrick WarrenEric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 27/01/2025This is only the beginning. 28992371
Reposted by Patrick WarrenJoe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Two of my colleagues had a State Department grant suspended this morning. 112
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Hearing rumors of ongoing US government grants being suspended today. Anyone else hearing the same? 020
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I don't think that meets the definition of a bribe. He hired them. A bribe is when you pay someone to exercise some authority they have for illegitimate ends. 020
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Greenland is the only way in the North America from Europe in Risk, too. And Panama is the only way up from S. America. Just sayin... 050
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 08/01/2025But... I also don't think fact-checking is much different from that, either. Except for maybe the subside. It's all about deciding what responses get top billing. 000
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I don't think Community Notes are qualitatively different from many other algorithmic approachesto select top comments or most informative reviews. They are all similar systems for selecting and highlighting privileged responses to main content. 100
Reposted by Patrick WarrenMary Beth Hunzaker @mbhunzaker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Okay, so just a few* thoughts (*this got longer as I wrote 😅….long thread)- 15232
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 07/01/2025(2024bl) is an underutilized APA citation date index. 020
Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I bought my wife one like that, but she said it was too dense. 120
